SeaTools is a well known utility from popular HDD manufacturer Seagate, SeaTools free hard drive diagnostic software comes in two flavors one for DOS and other for Windows OS.

While both hard-disk diagnostic tools are excellent, they are different as SeaTools for DOS is more powerful because it is able to access the disks more directly and natively to diagnose the problem correctly. SeaTools for DOS is provided as a standard bootable .ISO CD disk image but since all modern computers support the easier bootable USB medium, here is how to get "SeaTools For DOS Bootable from a USB drive".

Seagate HDD Diagnostic Utility - SeaTools For DOS

To create a bootable SeaTools For DOS USB Drive follow the steps as below :

Why use just SeaTools when the "Ultimate Boot CD" includes SeaTools (both CLI and GUI versions), other HDD diagnostics utilities, and wait for it... over 50 other utilities ranging from partition management, cloning, hardware diagnostics and benchmarking and so on.
It's FREE, and updated almost monthly.
And... you can add your own software to it or customise it in other ways.

It writes to the USB drive, but I only have 9 items on the drive when it is finished, not 11 as shown above. And when I use the flash drive to try to boot the offending PC, it just says "Free DOS" and does not launch SeaTools. Unless someone has an answer pronto, I think I'm just going to go out and buy a CD-R. This is a ridiculous amount of work.

It's well documented that the GUI version of Seatools has issues with mouse/keyboard. Even if you use a PS/2 setup.

There is also a text version. It worked for me. 1980's ugly but it did work.

Can you create it as the bootable USB?

Thanks!

Steve

See quote from Seagate below:

v1.10 (Text)
Note: If you have system compatibility problems with the v2 GUI version, please use the v1 Text version. It has the same level of diagnostic capability and hardware support. These two versions are updated and released together.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/seatooldreg

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